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Boon Sheridan has dozens of people turning up at his house (Picture: Twitter/Boon Sheridan)

In the latest ridiculousness surrounding the augmented reality mobile game Pokemon Go, a man ended up with dozens of strangers loitering outside his door after his home was specified as one of the game’s gyms.

The game uses public places such as parks or churches as gyms, which are areas where users can go to battle.

Unfortunately for Boon Sheridan, who lives in a converted church, this meant that dozens of bemused-looking Pokemon Go players ended up outside his front door.

‘Living in an old church means many things,’ he wrote on Twitter.

Living in an old church means many things. Today it means my house is a Pokémon Go gym. This should be fascinating.

The steady stream of Pokemon players has yet to stop, and it seems Mr Sheridan can’t really do anything about it.

He noted that users could sit in the park opposite his house and still be seen as being inside the gym in the game. But that still means that cars are regularly pulling up outside his house.

Mr Sheridan notes that the strange behaviour of people in the area might lead his neighbours to think that drug-dealing or some other crime is regularly taking place.

It isn’t yet possible for people to have their houses removed from Pokemon Go. In the US, where the law in some states stipulates that homeowners may kill trespassers, that could have deadly consequences.